Commonwealth v. Hoffer’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
142 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bradshaw (1982), Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald (1978)
142 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Costello v. United States · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Detenber v. American Universal Insurance Co · In re Ruffalo · Commonwealth v. Tucker
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ounsel may argue the evidence and the fair inferences which can be drawn from the evidence,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.